The Delta independent., 1887-04-26
COLORADO CONDENSED.

Idaho Springs.
One farmer near Akron has planted
forty acres of corn.
A Board of Trade has been organized
in Glenwood Springs.
Colonel Hogle has been reappointed
Chief of Police in Denver.
The new city directory of Denver
shows population of $1,000.
The Presbyterians of Aspen are
about to erect church building.9
The rails on the Midland have been
laid to liartsel's in the South Park. =
The Burlington company has secnr-
ed right Of way through Sterling.
Aspen schools have been closed ow-
ing 10 the prevalence of scarlet fever.
A gentleman near Grand Junction
has recently set out sixty acres in peach
trees.
A leo-acre ranch adjoining Glen
wood Springs was sold few days ago for
eco, ZOO.
1t is reported that Armour is abont
to erect big beef packing establishment
In Denver.
A man was arrested in Denver the
other day for pulling the tongue out of bal
ky horse.
The State Board of Equalization has
decided to tax the railroads on the same
basis as lastyear
One of the heaviest snow storms of
the season has just fallen at Leadville and
on the western slope.
David NJ. White, "a well-known char
acter, committed suicide by shooting in
Denver few days ago.
An artesian well is proposed for
Greeley large enough and deep enough to
supply the whole town.
a new postofiice has been established
twenty-five miles east of Sterling. called
Chenoa, with William Blemey as postmas.
ter.
A number of Denver capitalists have
purchased COO acres Of land near Pueblo
which they intend 10 improve and lay ont
IN town lots.
The base ball season opened in Den.
yer ON the 2lst by game between the Den
yer club and the Hastings. The former won
the game easily.
A meeting Of the citizens OF Monte
Vista was held the other day ,u take steps
TO secure the erection Of n fine hotel to cos,
not less ihar sio,aoo
Work on the Ilifl ditch will be CON-
pletcd this week. This ditch is about thirty
miles long and covers some of the best land
in the Platte Valley.
II is reported that the Aichison. To-
peka & Santa Fe are trying to buy the Den.
yer, Utah Il Pacific railroad. as part OF a
proposed northern extension.
Chairman Stevens of the Republican
City Central Committee has published a
card In which he calls Mr.. Lee, the newly
elected Republican Mayor, coward and a
liar.
= Thomas Haskins, Young man
twenty years d,met with terrible death in
the Kansas mine at Central City n few davs
ago by falling from the 100 10 the 1850. foot
level.
A reward of $3.50 has been offered by
the Governor for the arrest of Fllepo
Duchesne, who is charged with killing W.
II. Cox, near Rock Creek, Summit County,
on March Is.
The point where the Denver. Texas
n Gulf will cross the Atchson, Topeka Il
Snnfn Fp rnilrnnI Is ,Na1N, ,,,ft.
of Trinidad. A town is soon 10 be started
there called Iloehne.
The best estimates that can be made
at the United States land office show that
about 1900 cmigrants have settled in
Eastern Colorado since the first of April-a
period of three weeks
The creameries of the State. the
ones at Brighton, Longmont, Li,,lcton and
La Jara are greatly increasing their bust.
ness since the spring has opened up. All
of them will do half more than they did
last year.
The Pueblo Chicftain predicts that
within thirty days Mr.. W. S. jackson. pres
idcnt of the Denver and Rio Grande, will
be occupying an importan, official position
In the Denver, Texas and Fort Worth
Railroad company, perhaps that of general
manager.
Osborn II. Buskctt, fireman en-
ployed in the Union Pacific yards Mt Den
yer, met horrible death few days ago.
He put his head out of the cab window,
when II was struck by heavy timber con-
nected with the trcstle work on the sd
street viaduct.
During the past week large quaint
ties OF snow have fallen In the San Luis
Valley and this has been followed by CO.
pious rain. The effect on the appearance
of the valley is not TO be estimated as 1t in
sures an abundant hay crop. Clearing Off
warm, as 1t has, will also prove beneficial
for the crops already In.
Mr.. S. II. II. Clarke. the general
manager of the Missouri Pacific railway,
has written letter to the Pueblo Board OF
Trade In which he states that his road will
guarantee TO run trains into Pueblo within
n year provided certain lands for depot and
track purposes be donated TO them. This
will undoubtedly be done.
Two car loads of Holstciu cattle be-
longing TO Blrks Cornforth have been or
dered in quarantine by the State Netcrin-
g.. ali mn.